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Word: sirianni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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Home from the London Naval Conference, Admiral Giuseppe Sirianni, ranking expert of the Italian delegation, reported to the government of Signer Benito Mussolini on the general world naval situation. Next day the cabinet released copies of Italy's current warboat building program - prepared weeks ago but ominous enough to seem to Frenchmen like a postConference threat. Twenty-nine fighting ships will be laid down this year and built at a cost of $40,000,000: one 10,000-ton cruiser; two 5,100-ton flotilla leaders; four 1,240-ton destroyers and 22 submarines. At London Italy signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: 29 War Boats | 5/12/1930 | See Source »

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